Scenes of old Redcar have been donated to a museum after being snapped up by a local photographer.

The Graham Collection, comprising 24 boxes of 5ins x 7ins glass plates, dates from early in the last century.

Phil Chisholm, who runs Studio Tristan, spent several hundred pounds buying them from a private collector to ensure they stayed in Redcar.

And now he has handed them over to the town's Kirkleatham Hall Museum where they are being catalogued with a view to a future exhibition.

Graham's of Redcar was a prolific photographic studio in the early 1900s.

Mr Chisholm said that when he heard the lost collection was on the market from a private owner, he was determined that it should stay in Redcar.

He said: "The Graham collection and its future is priceless to the town and its history. The collection, along with the Harry Picknett collection of Redcar postcards in the Zetland Lifeboat Museum, really pull together the jigsaw of life in Redcar."

Redcar and Cleveland museums curator, Phil Philo, said: "We are extremely grateful to Mr Chisholm for donating what we see as an important historical photographic record of the area.

"There is enough material for a small exhibition, which we will be working towards."

The plates includes scenes of Redcar beach, Redcar pier and Marske aerodrome.